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Programs, Courses, Extracurriculars, and Competitions for Y12 and Summer After Y11

Hi everyone,

I’m currently in Year 11, and I’m looking for programs, courses, extracurriculars, competitions, or awards that I can get involved in during Year 12 or the summer after finishing Year 11.

I’ve noticed most programs focus on summer after Year 12, but I’d love to find things I can do earlier.

•I’m particularly interested in Maths, Finance, Economics, and Computer Science but open to generic options too!

If you know of anything (like summer schools, online courses, competitions, ANYTHING!!.), please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

#summer programs #programs #awards #extracurriculars #y11 #y12 #y13

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 1

TSR Jessica

Sorry you've not had any responses about this. :frown:

Are you sure you've posted in the right place? :smile:

Here's a link to our subject forum which should help get you more responses if you post there. :redface:

Reply 2

McGinger

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by dorka_li

Hi everyone,
I’m currently in Year 11, and I’m looking for programs, courses, extracurriculars, competitions, or awards that I can get involved in during Year 12 or the summer after finishing Year 11.
I’ve noticed most programs focus on summer after Year 12, but I’d love to find things I can do earlier.
•I’m particularly interested in Maths, Finance, Economics, and Computer Science but open to generic options too!
If you know of anything (like summer schools, online courses, competitions, ANYTHING!!.), please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
#summer programs #programs #awards #extracurriculars #y11 #y12 #y13

You can search for these programs yourself - use 'Outreach', 'Year ,,,', and 'University' etc as search terms. Just be aware that many of these programs are specifically for 'widening participation' and will have exact criteria you need to meet. Warwick as one example - Widening Participation and Outreach

Extra reading etc suggestions from
Cambridge - super-curricular_suggestions.pdf
Oxford - Suggested Subject Resources | University of Oxford
and there are Moocs - short (free) online Uni units - available on FutureLearn and Coursera.

Reply 3

University of Bath

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Original post

by dorka_li

Hi everyone,
I’m currently in Year 11, and I’m looking for programs, courses, extracurriculars, competitions, or awards that I can get involved in during Year 12 or the summer after finishing Year 11.
I’ve noticed most programs focus on summer after Year 12, but I’d love to find things I can do earlier.
•I’m particularly interested in Maths, Finance, Economics, and Computer Science but open to generic options too!
If you know of anything (like summer schools, online courses, competitions, ANYTHING!!.), please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
#summer programs #programs #awards #extracurriculars #y11 #y12 #y13

Hi there,

Some lovely advice already above.

Some supercurriculars which may be useful for you could be...

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Weekend work/part time work during sixth form

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Volunteering of any sort

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For comp sci, have you tried teaching yourself to code in Python? This is a fun and easy way of demonstrating your interest in it

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Yes, agreed that many outreach programmes have certain criteria you need to meet but its worth looking around to find one that might interest you: example

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MOOCs are always a good way to demonstrate your interest - not only are they fun but can give you an insight into areas you are interested in that could even give you some career inspiration

•

The Maths Olympiad?

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TED Talks

Universities don't generally expect people to have had work experience before as not everyone will have access to these opportunities, but anything you can do to demonstrate interest over and above your schoolwork would be of benefit!

I hope this helps, best of luck!

Holly
University of Bath

Reply 4

AhsokaTano-

As uni of bath said - MOOCs. Coursera and edX have free ones (they say pay for the certificates but they'll provide one anyways) and it'll be good there's a small section for it on ucas/uni admisions

Computer science - i did girls who code self-paced while i was in spain (it was pain, they're based in NYC). and i read "the code book" by simon singh

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